By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 30, 2023 Alarmist stories about the weather, not the warm air itself, are behind the left’s anxiety and dread. The media wants you to know it’s hot outside. “ ‘Heat health emergency’: Nearly half the US at risk,” CNN proclaimed last week as temperatures climbed above 90 degrees in much of the country....

By: Scott Norvell – nysun.com – July 26, 2023 For a brief two-hour window Wednesday, the bombast and bluster that normally looms over Capitol Hill fell by the wayside and a bipartisan group of House members courteously turned their attention to what Americans apparently really want to hear about: UFOs. Representatives Matt Gaetz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat on the same dais...

By: Matt Ridley and Alina Chan – wsj.com – July 26, 2023 The controversy over the origins of Covid-19 refuses to die, despite efforts early in the pandemic to kill it. It was natural to doubt it was a coincidence that an outbreak caused by a SARS-like coronavirus from bats began in Wuhan, China, the only city where risky experiments were being done...

First Liberty Institute today sent a letter to St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas on behalf of Dr. Johnson Varkey, a former adjunct professor, demanding reinstatement to his position.  

By: Ian Kingsbury – nationalreview.com – June 16, 2023 A recent study on mortality rates between different races offers politicized deceptions instead of scientific inquiry. Woke ideology isn’t corrupting just our children’s education and our political discourse. Just as troubling is its destructive impact on scientific inquiry — the foundation of progress in virtually every field of life. In medical research...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – June 15, 2023 For Democratic and Republican partisans alike, Covid’s origins have little political use. To see this article in its entirety and subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Source: Covid: Consequence-Free Scandal? | National Review

By: Gregory A. Brown – nationalreview.com – June 13, 2023 As schools across the country are closing one calendar year and preparing for the next, state legislatures are battling a question that will have repercussions both inside and outside school walls: Should schools keep sports separate by biological sex or allow students to compete based on one’s gender identity? Currently,...

In a Debrief exclusive, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean report that a former official says the U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin.

Can Machines Create Art? | Erik Wielenberg’s Moral Realism In his book The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton claims that humans alone are created with the ability for art. He writes, “Art is the signature of man.”

Reports from the mainstream media that climate change will lead to food shortages – along with all manner of other calamities – have it exactly backward. The changing climate of the last couple centuries or so is in fact a big reason why the world is fed better than ever.